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Add MS 88998/2/7
- Record Id:
- 040-002787979
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023437733.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/7
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Birchard - Buck)
- Scope & Content:
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22 communications from Guy Birchard, Ian Brinton, Jonathan Brookes, Andy Brown, and Fred Buck.
- (1). Birchard, Guy. Victoria, British Columbia, 8 February 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with typed poem on the verso. With envelope. 'I really am very glad you enjoy BLOOD [Further than the Blood] - greatly appreciate you saying so.'
- (2). Brinton, Ian. Faversham, 8 March 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet), with related invoice dated 5 May (1 sheet). Invitation to give a poetry reading at Dulwich College.
- (3). Brinton, Ian. Faversham, 22 March 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet), with printed e-mail (20 March 2009) from Michael Rumaker to Brinton, commenting on The Long Black Veil (1 sheet). 'Peter Robinson is very much looking forward to a shared reading with you on April 24th'.
- (4). Brinton, Ian. Faversham, 29 May 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet). Offers to 'put the O'Hara piece into print' in The Use of English.
- (5). Brinton, Ian. Brief undated note from Brinton, forwarding photocopied material (4 sheets) from P.N. Review issue 187 [2009] supplied by Peter Riley (poems by John Ashbery and a review by Riley of Harwood's Selected Poems and Not the Full Story).
- (6). Brookes, Jonathan. Cardiff, 7 February 1999 (postmark). Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
- (7). Brookes, Jonathan. Cardiff, 28 November 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet). Refers to book of poems by Brookes, The Dresden Cantata (2008).
- (8). Brookes, Jonathan. Cardiff, 4 June 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (9). Brookes, Jonathan. Cardiff, 4 August 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet).
- (10). Brown, Andy. Exeter, 11 August 2005 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
- (11). Brown, Andy. Exeter, 12 September 2005. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Thanking Harwood for agreeing to write an endorsement for Brown, Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt Publishing).
- (12). Brown, Andy. Exeter, 19 November 2005. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (13). Brown, Andy. Exeter, 18 April 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Brown would like to conduct an interview, to appear on-line (The Argoist).
- (14). Brown, Andy. Exeter, 6 September 2006 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. The interview has been conducted but not yet transcribed.
- (15). Brown, Andy. University of Exeter, [September 2006]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Interview has been transcribed but needs to be edited to reduce length.
- (16). Brown, Andy. [Exeter], 25 September 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Enclosing a copy of the interview (not present) 'as edited by yourself'. (For the interview, see: http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Harwood%20interview.htm)
- (17). Brown, Andy. Exeter, 20 May 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (18). Brown, Andy. [Exeter], 18 July 2007 (postmark, and internal evidence). 1 postcard, with envelope.
- (19). Brown, Andy. University of Exeter, undated [?2008]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Supplying a copy of his new book, and working on a book of essays on Kelvin Corcoran.
- (20). Buck, Fred. Gloucester, Massachusetts. 7 January [1977]. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'we've made some theoretical money from notes of a po clerk [Harwood, 'Notes of a Post Office Clerk', Bezoar (1976)], which puts ink into the drum and paper through it.' (Buck was co-editor of Bezoar, a small press publication from Gloucester.)
- (21). Buck, Fred. Gloucester, Massachusetts, 9 February 1980. Autograph letter (2 sheets), with envelope, enclosing cuttings from the Gloucester Times,8 February 1980 ('6 saved from icy waters after Hattie Rose sinks', and reports of the deaths of Abigail Brownell (91) and Alexander Johnson (91), residents of Rockport). The letter refers to the preparation of posters by Harwood's wife, photographer Judith Walker, for Bezoar. Also enclosed with the letter, 7 black and white photographs (each 90 x 90 mm) of a beached 'Nova Scotia dragger' (1971).
- (22). Buck, Fred. Gloucester, Massachusetts, [8 June 1980]. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope and 10 small bw photographs of Post Office workers in mail room. 'jud called last sunday to say the posters were on their way, and they have indeed arrived. i put one up over the table and the more i look at it the better i like it. like the weiners [John Wieners] poster it puts the poem the person and the place in one bowl and makes a potent bezoar. i'd like the next 10 bezoars to be judith walker posters.'
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002787979 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/7 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Birchard - Buck) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0007]/040-002787979
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1971
- End Date:
- 2012
- Date Range:
- 1971-2012
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Birchard, Guy, Canadian poet, b 1949
Brinton, Ian, teacher, author, b c 1950
Brookes, Jonathan, poet, b 1951
Brown, Andy, educator, poet, b 1966
Buck, Fred, American poet, small press editor, b c 1945